Life This is the closest I may ever come to a "Pawn Stars moment" - Page 3

**RealSNR** · 06:26 PM

So if you've ever seen the show, you know a large portion of it has to be scripted. I have no clue where they find the people who bring the shit they want to sell/pawn. Do they send out a call for people with weird stuff to get on TV, or do they "plant" the items on randoms? Even for a pawn shop as unique and unordinary as that one, 99.9% of the time people aren't entering pawn shops looking to sell their own copy of the Declaration of Independence that was hand-written by Thomas Jefferson himself.

I notice that any time somebody brings up something really cool, and Rick asks, "Where did you find this?" they often say, "Eh, I found it at a garage sale" or "I tripped over it when I was nosing around in my Grandpa's attic." Sometimes it's believable, like an old gramophone or something. Or a WWI uniform. Sure, I could buy that being a family heirloom getting passed down. Susan B. Anthony's private collection of vibrators and dildos? I'm calling bullshit on that. You did NOT just find that laying around.

Well, this isn't anything totally unusual or bizarre, but it's pretty damn cool. I'm currently in the process of helping my grandparents move into an assisted living place, so we've got a lot of odds and ends laying around in their basement and attic to go through. Today I was pulling out shoeboxes of pictures, old dishes, model trains. It's all really cool stuff in itself, but it's something you kind of expect in a house from somebody who's lived that long and still has that Great Depression mentality to save anything that could be of use one day.

But then I found a brown paper sack containing a baseball with a lot of signatures on it. I asked them about it, and they said, "Oh yeah, that must have been that baseball game we went to when the kids were really young." They lived most of their lives in Sioux Falls, so I assumed it was a Twins game, since I never heard of them going down to Kansas City for stuff like that. I guess they won it in some sort of "Hey, your ticket number was called! You win a team-autographed baseball" drawing. However, this was at the end of the day, and they were getting tired. They couldn't remember exactly what it was or how they won it. My dad didn't remember any of it, either, so he must have been very young.

After googling the rest of the names, I'm 99% sure this is from the 1962 Twins. I knew nothing about Twins baseball before the Kirby Puckett era other than Harmon Killebrew, and his signature is on there. Only one name doesn't match up (Dan Dobbek), but I guess he was around for the 1961 season, so maybe he was just in reserve all year?

Anyway, it definitely made my day. I'm pretty much the only one in the family who has an appreciation for sports memorabilia like this, but I still insisted they keep it. Apparently they forgot about the damn baseball decades ago, so they said it'd be better if I kept it and appreciated it. I'm also going to be doing some more research on that season. Hopefully I can pinpoint eventually the exact game they went to and who was on the team at the time that didn't get their signature on the ball.

And no, I'm not going to sell it. I'm not a Twins fan, but I always think it's kind of shitty when somebody goes in looking for easy cash for shit that's been in the family for generations, and then Rick does his usual, "I could give ya like $5 for it." This isn't exactly an heirloom or something that has personal meaning to my grandparents or parents, but I think it's pretty damn cool, and it's still something I'll have for years to come after they are both gone.

So I guess from now on I'll be less skeptical of the lady on Pawn Stars who found Katherine Hepburn's pubic hair trimmer in her grandma's medicine cabinet. That kind of stuff IS out there in weird places that you never expect it to be.

**RealSNR** · 12-13-2014, 06:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Simply Red

Pitt Gorilla · 12-13-2014, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by SNR

Susan B. Anthony's private collection of vibrators and dildos?

I've got a buddy who is an expert on Susan B. Anthony sex toys.

scho63 · 12-13-2014, 08:21 PM

I'll give you $7 and a Matt Cassel jersey for that baseball.

**lewdog** · 12-13-2014, 08:24 PM

That's a great ****ing baseball man! Love hearing stories like that.

**BigRedChief** · 12-13-2014, 08:27 PM

The baseball isn't going to be worth much at all. You can pay $50 to authenticate the signatures and then you may get $100. It's not the ball, its the market for all baseball autographs and memorabilia. The market is in the dumpster.

I'd keep the ball. Good back story about the grandparents attached to the ball.

**lewdog** · 12-13-2014, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

The baseball isn't going to be worth much at all. You can pay $50 to authenticate the signatures and then you may get $100. It's not the ball, its the market for all baseball autographs and memorabilia. The market is in the dumpster.

I'd keep the ball. Good back story about the grandparents attached to the ball.

I noticed to autograph market is like the stock market. When players break out, it's crazy expensive like when Puig hit the scene. After his few month run slowed down, price were about cut in half for his stuff.

Deberg_1990 · 12-13-2014, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

The baseball isn't going to be worth much at all. You can pay $50 to authenticate the signatures and then you may get $100. It's not the ball, its the market for all baseball autographs and memorabilia. The market is in the dumpster.

I'd keep the ball. Good back story about the grandparents attached to the ball.

Why did the baseball market take a dump? Is it because the popularity of baseball has taken a dive?

**Bowser** · 12-13-2014, 08:35 PM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

The baseball isn't going to be worth much at all. You can pay $50 to authenticate the signatures and then you may get $100. It's not the ball, its the market for all baseball autographs and memorabilia. The market is in the dumpster.

I'd keep the ball. Good back story about the grandparents attached to the ball.

Well aren't you a ray of sunshine. Why don't you go ahead and tell SNR what failures his grandparents are while you're at it?

**BigRedChief** · 12-13-2014, 08:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Why did the baseball market take a dump? Is it because the popularity of baseball has taken a dive?

Too much material on the market. A lot was speculation that the market would continue to grow and prices go up. When the market flatten, people put their stuff up for sale and the prices tumbled.

Something like SNR's baseball, IMHO has way more value to him than even if it was worth $1000. Watching my baseball team win a world Championship in person with my son was priceless. How much would you pay for that experience? It is worth way more than money.

**RealSNR** · 12-13-2014, 09:08 PM

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Originally Posted by BigRedChief

Too much material on the market. A lot was speculation that the market would continue to grow and prices go up. When the market flatten, people put their stuff up for sale and the prices tumbled.

Something like SNR's baseball, IMHO has way more value to him than even if it was worth $1000. Watching my baseball team win a world Championship in person with my son was priceless. How much would you pay for that experience? It is worth way more than money.

**lewdog** · 12-13-2014, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990

Why did the baseball market take a dump? Is it because the popularity of baseball has taken a dive?

Market is over-saturated and with the coming of Ebay, much of that market is fake sports memorabilia with people thinking they are getting deals but are really just getting ripped off.

**The Franchise** · 12-13-2014, 09:40 PM

Both sets of my Grandparents died and I didn't get anything cool. You lucky bastard...

**cdcox** · 12-14-2014, 12:07 AM

My grandparents all died during my childhood and adolescence. My maternal grandparents had 13 children, including my mother who was the youngest daughter and the third youngest overall. Through circumstances we have come into possession of three significant items.

We have had the bedroom furniture of my grandparents (consisting of a dresser and bed frame) for nearly all of our married life. These pieces aren't particularly valuable but I think it is pretty cool that my daughter uses the bed frame of my grand parents. My wife and I still use the dresser.

The grand prize is my grandparent's wedding photo. It is at least 95 years old, with an oval frame and bubble glass. It came into the possession of my mom and several years ago I expressed an appreciation of it. One year soon after, it was given to us as a Christmas present and has hung in our home for the last 10 years or so. I still have living uncles and cousins that have a greater claim to it by way of family hierarchy, but for whatever reason, fate has designated me as the caretaker. I'm sure it isn't worth anything, but to me it is priceless.

**RealSNR** · 12-14-2014, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by cdcox

My grandparents all died during my childhood and adolescence. My maternal grandparents had 13 children, including my mother who was the youngest daughter and the third youngest overall. Through circumstances we have come into possession of three significant items.

We have had the bedroom furniture of my grandparents (consisting of a dresser and bed frame) for nearly all of our married life. These pieces aren't particularly valuable but I think it is pretty cool that my daughter uses the bed frame of my grand parents. My wife and I still use the dresser.

The grand prize is my grandparent's wedding photo. It is at least 95 years old, with an oval frame and bubble glass. It came into the possession of my mom and several years ago I expressed an appreciation of it. One year soon after, it was given to us as a Christmas present and has hung in our home for the last 10 years or so. I still have living uncles and cousins that have a greater claim to it by way of family hierarchy, but for whatever reason, fate has designated me as the caretaker. I'm sure it isn't worth anything, but to me it is priceless.

Too fat.

**cdcox** · 12-14-2014, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by SNR

Too fat.

You bash on my dead grandpa? Is nothing sacred?

12-13-2014, 06:16 PM
RealSNR Special Teams ACE!!! Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Where the hell is SNR Casino cash: $2460208	This is the closest I may ever come to a "Pawn Stars moment" So if you've ever seen the show, you know a large portion of it has to be scripted. I have no clue where they find the people who bring the shit they want to sell/pawn. Do they send out a call for people with weird stuff to get on TV, or do they "plant" the items on randoms? Even for a pawn shop as unique and unordinary as that one, 99.9% of the time people aren't entering pawn shops looking to sell their own copy of the Declaration of Independence that was hand-written by Thomas Jefferson himself. I notice that any time somebody brings up something really cool, and Rick asks, "Where did you find this?" they often say, "Eh, I found it at a garage sale" or "I tripped over it when I was nosing around in my Grandpa's attic." Sometimes it's believable, like an old gramophone or something. Or a WWI uniform. Sure, I could buy that being a family heirloom getting passed down. Susan B. Anthony's private collection of vibrators and dildos? I'm calling bullshit on that. You did NOT just find that laying around. Well, this isn't anything totally unusual or bizarre, but it's pretty damn cool. I'm currently in the process of helping my grandparents move into an assisted living place, so we've got a lot of odds and ends laying around in their basement and attic to go through. Today I was pulling out shoeboxes of pictures, old dishes, model trains. It's all really cool stuff in itself, but it's something you kind of expect in a house from somebody who's lived that long and still has that Great Depression mentality to save anything that could be of use one day. But then I found a brown paper sack containing a baseball with a lot of signatures on it. I asked them about it, and they said, "Oh yeah, that must have been that baseball game we went to when the kids were really young." They lived most of their lives in Sioux Falls, so I assumed it was a Twins game, since I never heard of them going down to Kansas City for stuff like that. I guess they won it in some sort of "Hey, your ticket number was called! You win a team-autographed baseball" drawing. However, this was at the end of the day, and they were getting tired. They couldn't remember exactly what it was or how they won it. My dad didn't remember any of it, either, so he must have been very young. After googling the rest of the names, I'm 99% sure this is from the 1962 Twins. I knew nothing about Twins baseball before the Kirby Puckett era other than Harmon Killebrew, and his signature is on there. Only one name doesn't match up (Dan Dobbek), but I guess he was around for the 1961 season, so maybe he was just in reserve all year? Anyway, it definitely made my day. I'm pretty much the only one in the family who has an appreciation for sports memorabilia like this, but I still insisted they keep it. Apparently they forgot about the damn baseball decades ago, so they said it'd be better if I kept it and appreciated it. I'm also going to be doing some more research on that season. Hopefully I can pinpoint eventually the exact game they went to and who was on the team at the time that didn't get their signature on the ball. And no, I'm not going to sell it. I'm not a Twins fan, but I always think it's kind of shitty when somebody goes in looking for easy cash for shit that's been in the family for generations, and then Rick does his usual, "I could give ya like $5 for it." This isn't exactly an heirloom or something that has personal meaning to my grandparents or parents, but I think it's pretty damn cool, and it's still something I'll have for years to come after they are both gone. So I guess from now on I'll be less skeptical of the lady on Pawn Stars who found Katherine Hepburn's pubic hair trimmer in her grandma's medicine cabinet. That kind of stuff IS out there in weird places that you never expect it to be. Last edited by RealSNR; 12-13-2014 at 06:26 PM..
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cdcox www.nfl-forecast.com Join Date: Sep 2000 Casino cash: $2431769	My grandparents all died during my childhood and adolescence. My maternal grandparents had 13 children, including my mother who was the youngest daughter and the third youngest overall. Through circumstances we have come into possession of three significant items. We have had the bedroom furniture of my grandparents (consisting of a dresser and bed frame) for nearly all of our married life. These pieces aren't particularly valuable but I think it is pretty cool that my daughter uses the bed frame of my grand parents. My wife and I still use the dresser. The grand prize is my grandparent's wedding photo. It is at least 95 years old, with an oval frame and bubble glass. It came into the possession of my mom and several years ago I expressed an appreciation of it. One year soon after, it was given to us as a Christmas present and has hung in our home for the last 10 years or so. I still have living uncles and cousins that have a greater claim to it by way of family hierarchy, but for whatever reason, fate has designated me as the caretaker. I'm sure it isn't worth anything, but to me it is priceless. Attached Thumbnails
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